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| Welcome to the second Indie Game Highlight. Our last Highlight focused on Noitu Love 2 and now we are going to talk about what is quite possibly the hardest game ever created : I Wanna be the Guy. Yeah forget those Super Mario Bros. hacks that you have all seen. IWBTG is hands-down the hardest game I've played and trust me because that's saying a lot. The game is a 2D side-scroller shooter much like Mega Man, only your character has the ability to double jump. Oddly enough though, there are hardly any enemies. You control a seemingly immortal fifteen year-old boy who wants to be The Guy. Don't ask me what that means because I have no clue. Since there are very few enemies in the game, the developer has to rely on smart and fiendish level design. Indeed, the level design and creativity is off the quality charts in IWBTG. You will die thousands upon thousands of times in this game and despite that, you will just want to keep going to see what the developer throws at you next. What makes the game so hard is that it will trick you many times. You will frequently, at least in the beginning, underestimate your challenges and then get a rude awakening. One great example, very late in the game, you will encounter a totally empty room. (Spoiler warning!) You stroll through the room when suddenly the game crashes and a typical Windows error box pops up. Only the game hasn't actually crashed. As the game catches you off guard and yo ... |
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